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South Korea has hired Qorvis to handle PR, strategic communications and media management services.
The Publicis Groupe unit has a five-month contract valued at $175K.
Qorvis CEO Michael Petruzzelo and senior VP Brad Klapper are among the six-member Korea team.
The firm reports to Chang Woo Lee, first secretary at Korea’s DC embassy.
South Korea scrambled jets on Oct. 13 after North Korean warplanes flew close to the demilitarized zone between the countries.
The regime of Kim Jong Un, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary, launched a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan on Oct. 14. It has launched more than 40 missiles this year.
Kim has declared that North Korea’s nuclear forces are fully prepared for “actual war.”
Kuwait has hired Mercury Public Affairs to handle strategic communications in connection with the Oct. 24 dedication of the Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm Memorial in Washington.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary Iuliia Mendel for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
